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Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›
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Four Troublesome Trend Lines for Evolution

Taken as a totality, they make “zero sense in the context” of classic evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Another Headache for the RNA World Theory

Before a trial and error process like natural selection can even get started, self-replicating molecules must have a minimal accuracy rate. Read More ›
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Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›
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First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System ­— A Conundrum for Materialists

On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›
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Photo: Aurora borealis, by NASA/ Bill Dunford.

The Return of Natural Theology

Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers

I suppose someone could try to explain why the challenge is unfair or not relevant to the field. That would be very difficult to do. Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer and Tour Complete Four-Part Seminar on Origin of Life: Will Professor Dave Watch?

If Professor Dave watched to the end, he would have to confront the fact that he deceptively conscripted biochemist Bruce Lipshutz as an expert witness. Read More ›
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Hands-On Chemistry Can’t Simulate Prebiotic Earth

Says Dr. Meyer, “Even the modest movement they get towards life seems to be intelligently designed at each step of the way." Read More ›
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Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence

The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules. Read More ›

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